K-1 has come up with an ingenious idea to promote star power at their upcoming Dynamite show at the LA Coliseum this weekend – give a media push to Dennis Rodman. Sports Navigator reports that they would like to see Rodman compete in MMA, as early as late June in Holland. Yes, the Japanese report alluded to the fact that Rodman wrestled in WCW in 1997.

GracieFighter.com reports that the reason Gabe Ruediger will not fight on the K-1 Dynamite show is because he was declared ‘mentally unfit to fight.’ Does Ruediger have a legal leg to stand on if he wants to file a lawsuit against the commission? Sam Caplan comments and also has an update on the story.

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Wild Ass Circus is not happy about people lumping UFC in the same breath as the dogfighting allegations against Michael Vick. We will be spending plenty of time on this week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio covering this topic.

With this latest wackiness i think it’s getting kinda obvious that the CSAC is messing around. Have we ever seen this kind of numbers of medical denials before? And this isn’t even the crazy korean guys, these are guys who have fought in sanctioned bouts before and should have no issue getting cleared.

Sure it’s stupid that FEG didn’t turn in proper paper work and they do need to be proper penalized, but when you’ve got this many guys held back by undisclosed medical reasons, a fighter being held back because “he might go mental” and a whole fight taken off for no reason whatsoever, you really got to wonder WTF is going on in C-SAC.

u may think mma has grown so much, becuz it has been brainwashed itno your minds but when it comes down to it, it’s coming full circle, saku vs royce is still what fans want to see, it will be epic jus tlike the last time.

With Royce/Sakuraba cleared, things aren’t as bad as they once seemed to be. Losing Hong Man Choi was a bad blow, but with the CSAC denying fighters left right and center I think K1 now has the ability to save face on that issue. The stadium will still be nearly empty, but that’s not the big issue. It’s funny that K1 came to america to do a show for Asia, but that’s what’s happened. So long as the show doesn’t make waves with K1’s tv deals in Japan, Korea, etc, K1 can walk away from this limping but not dead.

I really cannot stand the CSAC and especially Armando Garcia, this man is really unqualified and unfit to be in charge of the commission. His suspension of Brian Ebersole was a joke. The man sees a Cartwheel guard pass for the first time in his life and decides to call it a work.

Oh and then he suspends Nick Thompson because he didn’t like his t-shirt. And this whole mess about declaring Gabe mentally unfit because he watched a tv show?

Why are people putting the blame on the CSAC? I’m not saying they are or not at fault. But look at the track record of MMA organizations in Japan. If anything, the blame should be placed on K-1, until proven otherwise.

“But look at the track record of MMA organizations in Japan. If anything, the blame should be placed on K-1, until proven otherwise.”

– K-1 has no track record WHAT SO EVER in a situation like this. CSAC does. To FEG’s credit, they advertised Choi vs. Lesnar, Royce vs. X and Morton vs. X, and are coming as close to delivering 100% on that as any regular US-based MMA fed usually does. As for who’s to blame for the damaging(korean) pull-outs, well we just don’t know. K-1’s road to this show has been messy, but at the same time they’re not the first ones to have issues with a CA-show. And, by the way, the Pro Elite-portion has been just as, if not MORE messed up along the way than/as the FEG-portion of this show.

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